Sermon Tone Analysis

Mark chapter one this morning versus 7 and 8.

So just to versus this morning and I started off and my out like no man is going to be a going to be a short sermon but That's just not the case.

2 versus packed with so much.

So much beautiful Truth for us.

Haha, just amazing.

And so, we last week, we started our series and Mark, and we talked about who John Mark was and is he was a close associate with the Apostle Peter?

And so, he recorded everything that Peter told him and he did it in Rome.

In the time, when the church, the Christian church was undergoing, severe persecution and you know, it it's not sad or stay but you got to remember we're dealing with was humans who are fragile and broken just like us and no doubts as they were going to this persecution as they has encountered Jesus in a saving way.

Did they begin to?

I wonder if they didn't begin to doubt whether or not what they had done with Jesus and place their faith in Jesus, whether or not it was, it was worth it or if it was true.

As all of us.

We should be willing to admit as we go through the trials in life.

Sometimes that.

Begins to the creep in.

And then one of my most favorite passages and Mark is in March after 9, when when Jesus encounters father and his and his son who is undergoing these challenges and ask Jesus to be healed.

And, and Jesus said, if you believe all things can be be true.

And least, they both said, Lord, we believe that help our unbelief.

And thankfully, God has preserved his word for us that we can all these years later go to his inspired preserved word.

And and and when those doubts creep in right person to God, then behold the face of Jesus in his word.

And as we talked about last week, as we will hold Jesus, in the words, in the inspired words of of the gospels, and the New Testament, right?

We, we know, it's the sword of the spirit of this.

What God's uses for us to bolster us in our faith and encourage us to press on.

And trials and tribulations of this world.

And so we have this opportunity as we closed Ecclesiastes and ended with this, this challenge to live, your lies for the glory of God until walk in fear of him, and keep his Commandments as Solomon said in the closing of Ecclesiastes.

We know.

Given us whilst being given the entirety of God's revealed word.

Is special Revelation in his word that he's empowered us through through the Gospel of Jesus Christ to live that out.

He's given us these wonderful gifts that did not have to live this Christian Life Is Christian call in her own strength.

But in the power and strength of God and to the Holy Spirit, and that's what we're going to be talking about today or willing.

And verses 7 & 8, describe the uniqueness of Jesus, but I just want to go back a few verses stand and read a few verses that we covered last week so we can get into.

That was just remember what we we've already discussed and then where the the context of verses 7:8 are coming in, right?

Mark Begins the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, with the beginning of ABS, John the Baptist going in and proclaiming, and making a way for the, for the, for the Messiah.

He was prophesied person.

That was in the Old Testament, that was to come.

And prepare the way to make the way for for this Messiah, that would show up on the scene and it is John the Baptist who fulfills this And so Mark records, the beginning of the Gospel of Jesus, with John, the Baptist fulfilling this Old Testament, proclamation of this one.

Who would come to prepare the way for John came baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming baptism of repentance for the Forgiveness of sins.

I mean, this went through that in great detail last week, what repentance is and what John was proclaiming and how baptism was a symbol of an inward desire.

And it's interesting that this long prophesied messiah, long-expected messiah.

He arrives on the scene and, and Jonathan comes and fulfills.

The Old Testament scripture that says, if he was going to come and prepare and he did not build the Messiah, a huge Army.

It did not build the Messiah, a huge castle.

Didn't call people to come and serve the Messiah.

He prepare the way of the Lord by proclaiming the need for repentance for a change of mind, and a change of Direction.

He's calling out for them.

After all Jerusalem and all the areas around them there.

Need their, their problem that they have ascended problem with with God.

And he's proclaiming their need to turn and, and embrace.

This New Perspective that the Messiah is going to bring.

But he points out the problem that is the problem for all of humanity.

Remember sin.

And we have a sim problem in the eyes of a whole day and just got I like most of you have often.

Waterdown.

Creator.

God is someone I can understand and someone who is not as holy and just as he's revealed himself to be.

But that is not the god of the scriptures.

That is not the God who has been revealed who he has revealed himself in scripture.

He is Holy and perfectly holy and he cannot be in the presence of sin and still we all have a sin problem.

And so John prepares the way.

By proclaiming this need for forgiveness of sins, to turn to to be forgiven in the eyes of a. Holy God and baptism in the water was a symbol of that inward desire.

We go on in verse 5, the whole Countryside and all the people Jerusalem.

We're going out to him and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River confessing their sins.

And so this is a big, huge movement of God, right?

All the Jerusalem, all these people from the city, and all of the countryside around, then we're coming to John the Baptist and and, and being baptized as a symbol of their acknowledge.

They have a sim problem in the eyes of a holy God, confessing their sins being baptized.

All these things pointing to the need of truly with us.

Jesus will do and has done for us.

There's a huge moving of God, 46.

And so we see here that people weren't coming out from all the Jerusalem in the countryside, because John the Baptist was some slick, charismatic guy in a really nice suits United.

This is a movement of God.

John Ward, camel-hair garment with leather belts.

He was not in high society.

He wore camel hair, garment with a leather belt around his waist in a locust and wild, honey.

And he proclaimed.

47 one who is more powerful and I am as is coming after me and I'm not worthy to stoop down and untie the strap of a sandals.

Mercedes says, I baptize you with water.

Again a symbolic reference baptism that we do is just a symbolic of the spiritual baptism that we have with Christ every weekend to be covering today.

He says, I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.

This prophesied Messiah, who is coming, will baptize with the Holy Spirit.

It's a spiritual baptism, a complete immersion into the work of Jesus Christ.

Ultimately and it is through the power of God.

The spirit are the third person of our Triune God that the gospel Goes Forth and people here.

It's an encounter Jesus and not saving way and turn from abandon abandon hope, and anything else, and place their faith and trust in Christ alone.

It is through the power of the spirit.

I baptize you with water.

I'm doing the symbolically of your need but the one who is coming is going to do a spiritual work, and it's not symbolic.

It is the real deal.

It is the thing that this baptism points to.

I ultimately.

In versus seven and eight John the Baptist is declaring the uniqueness of Jesus that Jesus is a unique human.

He is a very unique man.

He is different than all the rest of us scriptures again, and again pointed to Christ uniqueness.

And so I just want to spend the next few minutes going over.

What scripture, declares, scripture to Claire's, Jesus, to be in the unique person that a truly is.

Cuz yes, Jesus truly was a man, 100% of man.

Results of 100% God.

Something our minds can't even begin to the rapper sells around it.

But that is what scripture declare that Jesus was.

Very unique.

He was not like us.

He was a unique.